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Pittsburgh Stock Exchange, 333 4th Ave. Arrott Building, 401 4th Ave. (1902) Benedum-Trees Building, 223 4th Ave. (1905) The Carlyle, 306 4th Ave. (1906) Skinny Building, 241 Forbes Ave. (1926) Investment Building, 239 4th Ave. (1927) The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1985. [1]
Downtown Pittsburgh, colloquially referred to as the Golden Triangle, and officially the Central Business District, [2] is the urban downtown center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela River whose joining forms the Ohio River. The triangle is bounded by the two ...
Penn Avenue is a major arterial street in Pittsburgh and Wilkinsburg, in Pennsylvania.Its western terminus lies at Gateway Center in downtown Pittsburgh.For its westernmost ten blocks it serves as the core of the Cultural District with such attractions as Heinz Hall, the Benedum Center and the Byham Theater as well as the David L. Lawrence Convention Center and the Heinz History Center ...
The Pittsburgh Central Downtown Historic District is a historic district in the Central Business District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.It is composed of multiple late eighteenth-century buildings which illustrate "Pittsburgh's emergence during that period as a preeminent industrial and business center," according to Hyman Myers, the former chair of the Pennsylvania Historic ...
Liberty Avenue is a major thoroughfare starting in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, just outside Point State Park. Liberty Avenue runs through Downtown Pittsburgh, the Strip District, and Bloomfield and ends in the neighborhood of Shadyside at its intersection with Centre Avenue and Aiken Avenue. Liberty Avenue is about 4.3 ...
The business grew, expanding into a department store, and adding locations in New York City, Philadelphia and Detroit. [5] The Pittsburgh Frank & Seder building was expanded in 1913. [6] On January 27, 1917 a fire engulfed the retail shopping district in downtown Pittsburgh bordered by Wood St, Forbes Ave, Smithfield St, and 5th Ave.
Market Square is a public space located in Downtown Pittsburgh at the intersection of Forbes Avenue (originally named Diamond Way in colonial times) and Market Street. The square was home to the first courthouse and first jail (both in 1795), and the first newspaper west of the Allegheny Mountains, the Pittsburgh Gazette (1786).
It begins downtown and moves eastward for over five miles (9 km). [1] Fifth Avenue passes by the Carlow University, the Cathedral of Learning and other buildings of the University of Pittsburgh, then forms the borders between Shadyside on the north and Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze to the south.